Stelios Tsafarakis

Stelios Tsafarakis is an Associate Professor at the School of Production Engineering and Management of the Technical University of Crete. His academic journey includes a PhD in Scientific Marketing from the Technical University of Crete and Université Paris Dauphine (2010), a Postgraduate Diploma in Production Engineering and Management (2007), an MSc in Management Information Systems from the University of Southampton (2002), and a Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (2000).

• PhD: Technical University of Crete & Université Paris Dauphine (2010)
• Postgraduate Diploma: School of Production Engineering and Management, TUC (2007)
• MSc: Management Information Systems, University of Southampton (2002)
• Diploma: Electrical & Computer Engineering, NTUA (2000)

His research focuses on consumer buying behavior, product line design and optimization, discrete choice models, and the application of evolutionary algorithms to market structure analysis. His work bridges marketing theory with computational methods, emphasizing nature-inspired optimization techniques for practical business solutions.

Recent publications highlight trends in digital platform analytics, ICT integration in education, and bio-inspired optimization algorithms. His studies explore gamification in tourism, automated learner grouping via particle swarm optimization, and fuzzy systems for product line design.

Stelios contributes to the Organization & Administration Laboratory at TUC. His collaboration hours are available by arrangement, and he can be reached at office D5.009 (phone: +30 28210 37160).